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A PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN ROCOCO BLUE AND WHITE-PAINTED TERRACOTTA URNS ON STANDS After a d...

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A PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN ROCOCO BLUE AND WHITE-PAINTED TERRACOTTA URNS ON STANDS After a d...
A PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN ROCOCO BLUE AND WHITE-PAINTED TERRACOTTA URNS ON STANDS

After a design by Franz Xaver Haberman (1721-1796), Augsburg, mid-18th century Each baluster form urn with flowers and scrolling foliage surmounted by a rocaille and flanked by scrolling arms, on an inverted square foot and inverted spreading triform base sheathed with rocailles and scrolls, on claw and ball feet 68 X 38 in. (173 X 92 cm)

$100,000-150,000

Literature Designs of Desire, Architectural and Ornament Prints and Drawings 1500-1850. Ex. cat. The Burrell Gallery, Glasgow and The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1999, nos. 101A-B, pp. 214-15, fig. 55.

FRANZ XAVER HABERMAN After visiting Italy, Haberman, the sculptor, designer and engraver, settled in Augsburg in 1746, where he produced over 500 prints covering a wide range of designs, both ecclesiastical and domestic, for furniture, silver, ironwork, carriages, organs and altars. He was also influential through his position as professor of drawing at the newly founded School of Design in Augsburg, a post he held from 1781 until his death.

The engravings that served as the models for the present pair of urns are known (fig 1). These prints show a boisterous rococo design that could have been successfully adapted to suit a number of materials, including giltwood, gilt bronze, silver, or in this case, ceramic. Rococo decorative style, with its emphasis on asymetrical forms and a fascination with shell-like motifs, was especially popular in France, South Germany and Austria. It was in designs of French luminaries of the previous generation, namely Nicolas Pineau (1684-1754) and Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750), that Haberman found inspiration
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